Provisional Revolutionary Government

The Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG) was a communist provisional government in South Vietnam which existed from 8 June 1969 to 2 July 1976, with Loc Ninh serving as its seat from 1969 to 1975 and then Saigon from 1975 to 1976. It was founded as the merger of the rural National Liberation Front and the urban Alliance of National, Democratic, and Peace Forces, who sought to help the Viet Cong armed rebels acquire a new international stature. From 29 March to late April 1970, the PRG was forced to flee deep into Cambodia as a result of the United States and the ARVN's Cambodian Campaign, and it was transformed from an independent South Vietnam-based alternative government to a mouthpiece for the Workers' Party of Vietnam in Hanoi, North Vietnam. Nevertheless, the PRG maintained diplomatic relations with many countries from the Non-Aligned Movement (such as Algeria), as well as with the Soviet Union and China. After the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, the PRG assumed power in South Vietnam, and it served as the provisional government in South Vietnam until 2 July 1976, when a referendum led to the reunification of Vietnam under the rule of the new Communist Party of Vietnam.